Re: O'Reilly interview with Date

From: Marshall Spight <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 9 Aug 2005 11:51:06 -0700
Message-ID: <1123613466.878961.58290@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

Kenneth Downs wrote:

> To the RM, a table is semi-structured because an item of type char(20) is
> handled as payload, an opaque stream of bytes. The type engine provides
> services such as comparisons, but the Relational engine doesn't care.

You could say the same thing but use "int" instead of char(20).

I just don't understand the attraction of dividing up the system into separate "engines". Do we have a separate int engine vs. a string engine? Do we have a + engine that's separate from the * engine? What concrete benefit does having separate engines produce?

Marshall Received on Tue Aug 09 2005 - 13:51:06 CDT